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The Canberra Times
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Toby Vue

'Could not stop crying': Woman speaks of grief after husband dies at worksite

Yidi Zhou has spoken of the emotional toll after her husband, Thomas Magi, died at a Denman Prospect construction site (inset) when he fell about six metres in February 2020. Pictures: Toby Vue, Supplied

The wife of a carpenter who died after falling six metres from an unsafe construction site has told a court about the emotional toll wrought by the death as the company responsible faces sentencing.

Agreed facts tendered to the ACT Industrial Court on Wednesday state that Better Building Holdings engaged Thomas Magi, 60, to provide carpentry work in 2019 during the building of a three-storey residential dwelling in Denman Prospect.

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